WhatShouldIDo

I am afraid of installing those updates because I do not want to loose my sound again. :-S What should I do? What would you do in my situation?

jocke@jocke-desktop:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 645xx (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 14) 00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller 00:02.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] FireWire Controller 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0) 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) 00:08.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 536EP Data Fax Modem 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x] (rev a1)

Hello! Update is what I did, and do all the time. This doesn't mean it's the correct thing to do by any means. We're promised sound "out of the box" soon. I guess if you want free software, this is the price! Hang in there, help is coming. I can hear it! (Pardon the pun!)

This is what I'm afraid of also. I lost my WiFi when I updated before and I have been reluctant to do it again.

Hello. I don't know if you've already updated, but the developers have solved the sound issue. I can't speak for wireless though.

So it is safe for me to just install those updates now?

You should define safe, we're working to get a free operating system, if your hardware only uses non free software to operate, then it's not safe, but if you know that it is free go ahead, you'll find a nice change :).
Any way here some of the packages removed

Am I correct that gNewSense missed some non-free components in the ISO image and that the update removed them? Have I been using them? Is that why I have wireless with my intel 3945 card?

That would suck to lose wireless, but I would rather have a free system and plug it in.

I guess I'll update then.

If I don't post for a while, you'll know what happened. : )